12-letter words containing d, i, s, p, l, e
- hospitalised — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hospitalized — to place in a hospital for medical care or observation: The doctor hospitalized grandfather as soon as she checked his heart.
- hyperbolised — to use hyperbole; exaggerate.
- hyperboloids — Plural form of hyperboloid.
- iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
- ill-disposed — unfriendly, unsympathetic, or having a negative attitude, as toward another person or an idea.
- imperialised — Simple past tense and past participle of imperialise.
- in spadefuls — in an extreme or emphatic way
- incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
- indiscipline — lack of discipline or control: a campus problem of student indiscipline.
- indisposable — Not disposable.
- indisputable — not disputable or deniable; uncontestable. indisputable evidence.
- interspliced — Simple past tense and past participle of intersplice.
- kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
- lady-slipper — cypripedium
- lap dissolve — dissolve (def 17).
- lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
- ledger strip — a piece attached to the face of a beam at the bottom as a support for the ends of joists.
- lepidosirens — Plural form of lepidosiren.
- leukopedesis — an outward flow of white blood cells through a blood-vessel wall.
- ligniperdous — (of insects) wood-destroying
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- lithopedions — Plural form of lithopedion.
- live spindle — a rounded rod, usually of wood, tapering toward each end, used in hand-spinning to twist into thread the fibers drawn from the mass on the distaff, and on which the thread is wound as it is spun.
- loose-lipped — tending toward indiscriminate and uninhibited talk.
- lopsidedness — heavier, larger, or more developed on one side than on the other; unevenly balanced; unsymmetrical.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- middle stump — the stump inside of the leg stump and the off stump; the second of the three stumps of a wicket.
- mispleadings — Plural form of mispleading.
- needlepoints — Plural form of needlepoint.
- nucleocapsid — the nucleic acid core and surrounding capsid of a virus; the basic viral structure.
- oil deposits — reserves of petroleum found underground (or under the sea)
- oilseed rape — Oilseed rape is a plant with yellow flowers which is grown as a crop. Its seeds are crushed to make cooking oil.
- outside loop — a loop during which the back of the airplane is on the outer side of the curve described by the course of flight.
- overlordship — a person who is lord over another or over other lords: to obey the will of one's sovereign and overlord.
- palais glide — a dance with high kicks and gliding steps in which performers link arms in a row
- pale-skinned — having pale skin
- peccadilloes — a very minor or slight sin or offense; a trifling fault.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- personalised — to have marked with one's initials, name, or monogram: to personalize stationery.
- personalized — customized
- philadelphus — (Philadelphus) king of Pergamum c159–138 b.c.
- philomelides — a king of Lesbos who wrestled and killed every opponent until he himself was defeated by Odysseus.
- pig islander — a New Zealander
- pink-slipped — (of an employee) given notice of redundancy
- plaid screen — [XEROX PARC] A "special effect" that occurs when certain kinds of memory smashes overwrite the control blocks or image memory of a bit-mapped display. The term "salt and pepper" may refer to a different pattern of similar origin. Though the term as coined at PARC refers to the result of an error, some of the X demos induce plaid-screen effects deliberately as a display hack.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polydisperse — of or noting a sol that contains particles of different sizes.
- polyhedrosis — an often fatal disease of certain insect larvae or decapod crustaceans, caused by viruses containing DNA.
- polysulphide — any sulphide of a metal containing divalent anions in which there are chains of sulphur atoms, as in the polysulphides of sodium, Na2S2, Na2S3, Na2S4, etc